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GD2 does a selfie session with a fan
Yesterday a big gang of friends and family, me among them, heard G(od)D(aughter)2 do her end-of-year recital, way up at the top of the Royal College of Music just near the Albert Hall. It was terrific....
View ArticleMy favourite tweet today
This: There should just be a simple checkbox in twitter for “Are words violence?” The people who say “yes” only see tweets from people who agree. Two things I’m not clear about are: whether it’s...
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Ladybower Reservoir and its bridge
A lot of my postings here feature photos I photoed quite a while ago, which I decide that I at least want to remember a bit better than I otherwise might. Well, here’s another such, of a reservoir in...
View ArticleBMNB quote of the day: Tim Newman on feminism
Yes, Tim Newman: As I’m fond of saying, modern feminism is largely about encouraging women to adopt the worst behaviours of men. Tim Newman’s blog, White Sun of the Desert, is not in the list of OTHER...
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Welcome to The Great Realignment
To quote my own words here on July 4th: Two friends have currently been making noises about starting new blogs. I’m looking forward to reading those blogs regularly, if they happen. This blog is one of...
View ArticleStephen Davies is writing a horse book
Much as I would like to replace the late Findlay Dunachie, I don’t think I’m cut out to be a book reviewer. It takes too much focus. While you’re doing it, you can’t afford to get stuck into reading...
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The Great Realignment is now up and running
I don’t mean the thing itself, although something along those lines definitely is happening. I mean the blog of that name. Earlier this month, I noted that The Great Realignment …: … was there to be...
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My fourth task was photoing the entrance to the Queen’s Gallery
Late this afternoon, I went out walking, within walking distance of where I live. I had four tasks and I accomplished all of them, and then some. I have reached the age where getting four out of four...
View ArticleFinally saying something about The Wealth Explosion
For far longer than I care to go back and calculate, I have been struggling to write a review of Stephen Davies’s new book, The Wealth Explosion. (Shortish excerpts from this book can be read here,...
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Exploring The City: Monument thoughts
When I say exploring, I mean three kinds of exploring, rather than just the one. The “just the one” is going there, and taking photos. But the second is finding things out from the Internet about the...
View ArticleI am thinking of purchasing a new laptop computer
I will go further. I am thinking of purchasing an ASUS VivoBook X412UA 14 Inch Full HD NanoEdge Laptop. Does anybody have any comments to offer on the wisdom of such a decision? I have in mind to use...
View ArticleISIBAISIA
ISIBAISIA stands for “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. As I get older, I find myself wanting to use this phrase more and more, hence my need for an acronym. Which, I note, other persons are...
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They’re about to dig up the road
Another quota photo, because: another busy day. I may have time later to do something for here, but don’t want to have to be bothering about this. So: Again, photoed quite recently. Well, this year....
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Taxi adverts!
It’s almost the definition of History that you feel you can’t talk, in my case blog about, anything else. But yes, Taxi adverts. I haven’t been going out of my way to photo taxi adverts recently, but...
View ArticlePicadil Circus
I did not know this, from a massive thread about the London Underground, done by a lady called Antonia: In 1612 a man named Robert Baker built a mansion house just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. He...
View ArticleJokes about a broken blog
Not mine, thank goodness. 6k’s. A few hours ago, 6k told the tale of his broken blog, in the form of a blog posting which he had to put instead, at first, on Facebook. I LOLled at this bit: I’m...
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With all dew respect to 6k
I see that 6k is now calling quota photos QPs. And here is his latest QP: Go here for a bigger and thus even better version. And once there, click on the right, to get an equally amazing photo of the...
View ArticleSomething by me at Samizdata about feminism and skyscrapers
I have had one of those blogging days. The day was all available for blogging, but instead of me consequently quickly shoving up three or four fabulous little postings here, I got stuck on the first...
View ArticleBMNBQotD: William Befort on the bourgeois virtues
William Befort comments on this Instapundit posting, which links to and quotes from this posting by David Thompson. “Equity” now seems to mean that the bourgeois rewards must be evenly distributed even...
View ArticleOn Ex-Muslims and on the lack of social media omnipotence
Over the course of the last few days, Facebook suppressed Ex-Muslim TV but has now allowed it back on air again. Which provides me with a perfect excuse to write some topical commentary on the subject...
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